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Monday, December 19, 2011

MCQ Psychology Test Paper


Psychology Model Test Paper

1. ___are clusters of interrelated traits and attributes that we assume to be characteristic of certain kinds of individuals.

(a) Attitudes

(b) Stereotypes

(c) Superstitions

(d) None of the above

Ans. (b)

2. Sometimes ____ are formed to rationalize our prejudices or to justify shabby treatment of the individuals on the basis of some group characteristics that neither they nor the group actually possess.

(a) Peer group

(b) Social groups

(c) Stereotypes

(d) None of the above

Ans. (c)

3. Find out the correct statement

(a) In classical conditioning, the responses are under the control of some stimulus because they are reflexes automatically elicited by the appropriate stimuli

(b) In instrumental conditioning, responses are under the control of organism and are voluntary responses

(c) In classical conditioning the organism learns that the Cs is the sign for the occurrence of UCS because of their temporal and spatial contiguity

(d) All of the above

Ans. (d)

4. Contra prepared behaviours are those that can be learned

(a) Only with great difficulty, if at all

(b) Very easily

(c) Simultaneously with other work

(d) Cannot be learned

Ans. (a)

5. The process by which organisms learn to respond to certain stimuli but not to others, is known as

(a) Stimulus Discrimination

(b) Response Discrimination

(c) Stimulus Generalization

(d) Spontaneous Recovery

Ans. (a)

6. The defining characteristic of ____is that they express an evaluation of some objects, such as liking-disliking, pro-anti, positive, negative etc.

(a) Motivation

(b) Personality

(c) Attitude

(d) None of the above

Ans. (c)

7. ____consists of all organised activities systematically arranged to cater to all-round growth and development of its students.

(a) Club

(b) School

(c) Social organisation

(d) None of the above

Ans. (b)

8. A stimulus that may influence operant behaviour is called a

(a) Positive stimulus

(b) Negative stimulus

(c) Discriminative stimulus

(d) Powerful stimulus

Ans. (c)

9. ______ is the tendency of stimuli similar to a conditioned stimulus to evoke conditioned responses

(a) Stimulus Recovery

(b) Stimulus Generalization

(c) Generativity

(d) Stimulus discrimination

Ans. (b)

10. In lower classes children take every word of the____ as command and try to imitate his behaviour.

(a) Class-monitor

(b) Class-mate

(c) Teacher

(d) None of the above

Ans. (c)

11. Consider the following statements about self- report methods.

1. Attitudes are measured by attitude items

2. For self-report measures an attitude item consists of a question r statement about the object and a format for the response

3. The format can be fixed where the categories for the response are named

4. The format can be open ended where respondents use their own words

Which of the above statements are correct?

(a) 1 and 3

(b) 1, 2 and 3

(c) 1, 2, 3 and 4

(d) 2 and 3

Ans. (c)

12. The cognitive dissonance theory of attitude is proposed by

(a) Leon Festinger (1957)

(b) Heider(1958)

(c) Aronson (1968)

(d) Likert (1957)

Ans. (a)

13. Consider the following statements about attitude

1. Evidence indicates that attitudes formed on the basis of direct experience often exert stronger effects on behaviour than those formed indirectly through hearsay.

2. Attitude strength, an important factor, involves the strength of the attitudes in question.

3. Strength includes several components like, the intensity of an attitude, its importance, knowledge and accessibility.

4. Attitude strength is not important in determining the extent to which attitudes are related to overt behaviour

Which of the above statements is correct?

(a) 1, 2, 3 and 4

(b) 1 and 2

(c) 1, 2 and 3

(d) 3 and 4

Ans. (c)

14. Biological constraints on learning are the. tendencies of some species

(a) To acquire some forms of conditioning less readily than other species do

(b) To acquire some forms of conditioning more readily than other species do

(c) To exhibit nocturnal activity

(d) To depend on vision to associate food with illness

Ans. (a)

15. The theory of planned behaviour is proposed by

(a) Ajzen and Fishbein

(b) Fazio

(c) Roskos-Ewoidsen

(d) Petty and Krosnick

Ans. (a)

16. The prototype/willingness model of attitude is proposed by:

(a) Gibbons and his colleagues

(b) Fazio

(c) Ajzen

(d) Fishbein

Ans. (a)

17. The organism undergoing ______ receives a reward for each small step toward a final goal

(a) Shaping

(b) Conditioning

(c) Operating

(d) Delaying

Ans. (a)

18. When we watch commercials we know fully well that these messages are designed to change our views. This kind of knowledge is known as

(a) Forewarning

(b) Fore knowledge

(c) Biased assimilation

(d) Anticipation

Ans. (a)

19. Paired-Associates Learning

(a) Is a method used in studying verbal learning

(b) Mimics S - S conditioning and S - R learning

(c) Is used in learning some foreign language vocabulary list that pairs foreign words with their equivalents in Hindi

(d) All of the above

Ans. (d)

20. Fore warning provides us with

(a) More opportunity to formulate counter arguments

(b) More time in which to recall relevant facts and information that may prove useful in refuting a persuasive message

(c) Less time to recall relevant information

(d) Both (a) and (b)

Ans. (d)

21. The process of taking in external events and internal events or converting them into thoughts is called:

(a) Organisation

(b) Adaptation

(c) Assimilation

(d) Internalization

Ans. (d)

22. Biased Assimilation is the tendency

(a) To evaluate information that disconfirms our existing views as less convincing or reliable than information that confirms these views

(b) To direct our attention away from information

(C) To avoid forewarning

(d) None of the above

Ans. (a)

23. Verbal learning is

(a) Intentional

(b) Incidental

(c) Both (a) and (b)

(d) Occupational

Ans. (c)

24. Attitude polarization is a tendency to evaluate mixed evidence or information in such away

(a) That it strengthens our initial views and makes them more extreme

(b) That it weakens our initial views

(c) That it does not influence our initial views

(d) That it diverts our attitude

Ans. (a)

25. Cognitive Dissonance is

(a) An unpleasant state that occurs when we notice that various attitudes we hold, are some how inconsistent

(b) A pleasant state of emotional attitude

(c) A theory related to intelligence

(d) Semantic memory

Ans. (a)

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